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• Influence of Alex Burrows paying off for Senators hopeful Francis Perron

  08-09-2017 23:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Trading a top prospect for Alex Burrows last season might ultimately pay dividends the Ottawa Senators never counted on at the time.
  It could indirectly end up putting another top scoring forward in their lineup.
  Senators general manager Pierre Dorion said earlier this week that he expected Burrows, who had six goals and five assists in 20 regular-season games, then five assists in 15 playoff contests, to take on more of a leadership role during the 2017-18 National Hockey League season. Dorion
  
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• Where will you be able to smoke pot? At home — and maybe in 'designated establishments'

  08-09-2017 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Where will it be legal to use recreational cannabis?
  Only in private residences, including apartment buildings and outdoor areas such as decks, porches and yards. But not in public places, workplaces or inside a vehicle, said the province in an announcement Friday.
  This approach is guided by existing laws for consuming alcohol and the Smoke-Free Ontario Act. In other words, if you can’t use tobacco or drink a beer in a place, you can’t use marijuana there, either. So, no smoking pot
  
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• Illegal pot shops in Ottawa, 'consider yourself on notice,' Ontario government says [Video]

  08-09-2017 23:42
  
  Ottawa’s freewheeling pot shops will be shut out and shut down under the provincial government’s plan for cannabis sales.The province’s announcement that it will open LCBO-style marijuana stores leaves out independent, owner-operated shops, an option favoured by many cannabis activists.Illegal dispensaries are not part of the plan
  
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• Health groups support 19 as minimum age for pot in Ontario

  08-09-2017 23:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  The provincial government’s plan to make 19 the minimum age for legal marijuana use in Ontario got support Friday from health organizations — including some that had been pushing for a higher minimum age.
  Ottawa Public Health, for example, suggested 25 was a better minimum age when asked for input by the federal government last year.
  Twenty-five is the age at which brains fully mature. A growing body of evidence shows that marijuana use earlier can do permanent damage to developing b
  
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• Growing Senators prospect Logan Brown trying to match his potential

  08-09-2017 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Logan Brown figures he grew a half-inch taller over the summer, but the bigger, more important issue is whether he got any faster on the ice.
  It wouldn’t be for lack of trying.
  “Last year, the big thing was to get my legs moving and to keep it up at the pro level,” said Brown, the now 6-6 and a half-inch centre selected 11th overall by the Ottawa Senators in the 2016 National Hockey League draft. “I worked really hard this summer on explosiveness and keeping my feet movin
  
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• One in custody, @OttawaPolice investigating a makeshift meth lab set up in a park. 1310news.com/2017/09/08/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/NIXHanKDbc

  08-09-2017 23:17 via twitter.com
  
  One in custody, @OttawaPolice investigating a makeshift meth lab set up in a park. 1310news.com/2017/09/08/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/NIXHanKDbc
  
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• City hall blog: City reaches agreement for cell service in the LRT tunnel

  08-09-2017 23:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Your cell phone conversation won’t go interrupted while descending into an LRT station to catch a train when the electric rail line opens in 2018.
  That is, as long as your cell plan is with one of the big carriers.
  OC Transpo confirmed Friday that the city has signed an agreement to provide cell coverage in the 2.5-kilometre tunnel through downtown.
  Pat Scrimgeour, the head of transit customer services and planning, said in an email that customers who pay for cell service through major cel
  
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• Reevely: Ontario announces it will make buying pot difficult

  08-09-2017 22:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new arm of the LCBO will sell recreational marijuana in Ontario, the province announced Friday morning, with the goal being to keep people from buying it.
  “We’ve heard people across Ontario are anxious about the federal legalization of cannabis,” Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said, setting the tone. “The province is moving forward with a safe and sensible approach to legalization that will ensure we can keep our communities and roads safe, promote public health and harm
  
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• Ontario stakeholders weigh in on proposed marijuana plan

  08-09-2017 22:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Key organizations that were part of the consultation process for the sale and distribution of cannabis across Ontario responded Friday to the province’s proposed framework.
  Canadian Cancer Society
  “The Canadian Cancer Society is focused on ensuring that cancer takes fewer lives and that people living with cancer live longer and with a higher quality of life. To achieve these results, we need a strong public policy framework that advances our efforts. We support the proposed measures
  
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  08-09-2017 22:08 via twitter.com
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• First Nations see 'unprecedented opportunity' in Ontario pot plan

  08-09-2017 22:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s proposed marijuana distribution system is “an unprecedented opportunity” for First Nations, but poses “considerable risks,” warns Ontario Regional Chief Isadore Day.
  Day, who was briefed Friday morning by Attorney General Yasir Naqvi and Finance Minister Charles Sousa, said First Nations will work with the province in the coming months to hammer out details about how marijuana sales will be handled and regulated.
  In a statement, Day said First Nations have
  
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• Highway 401 closed at Ingleside after fatal crash, extending earlier closure

  08-09-2017 22:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  OPP officers are investigating a crash on Highway 401 near Ingleside that killed a motorist when his vehicle and a tractor-trailer collided on Friday.
  Both vehicles were travelling east near mile marker 769 at about 12:30 p.m.
  The male driver, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was not identified because his family had not been notified of his death. The trucker wasn’t hurt.
  The eastbound lanes of the highway are closed between Brookdale Avenue at Cornwall and Upper Canada Road, wi
  
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• The Ride to shut down several roads on Sunday

  08-09-2017 22:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  The eighth edition of The Ride, The Ottawa Hospital Foundation’s premier cycling fundraiser, will shut down several roads on Sunday as hundreds of participants arrive at Tunney’s Pasture to ride for cancer research.
  Road closures:
  6 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Goldenrod Driveway between Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway and Parkdale Avenue
  7 a.m. to 11 a.m.: Parkdale Avenue between Burnside Avenue and on-ramp for Westbound Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway
  7 a.m. to 11 a.m.: On-ramp
  
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• Province's pot proposal: What are they smoking?

  08-09-2017 21:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Welcome to the 1950s, that post-war period when, if an Ontarian wanted to legally purchase alcohol, he or she entered a bland warehouse, filled out and signed a written order form, then handed it to a dour clerk behind a counter who disappeared into a back room and eventually emerged with a limited amount of booze for purchase.
  That sounds a lot like what Kathleen Wynne’s government has just proposed as a 21st-century approach to cannabis, which is to be legalized nationally as early as ne
  
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• The week in quotes

  08-09-2017 21:38
  
  Here’s how the players saw news events this past week.
  
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• One Avro Arrow test model found, group hopes to locate others in Lake Ontario

  08-09-2017 21:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Search crews confirmed Friday they found a test model of the Avro Arrow on the floor of Lake Ontario.
  The OEX Recovery Group announced their discovery at a news conference. OEX began its quest in July and had been using a small submersible to conduct its search in the waters of Lake Ontario.
  “We are very pleased and tremendously proud to announce we have discovered the first example of one of the free-flight Arrow models,” John Burzynski, Raise the Arrow expedition leader and CEO of
  
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• ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/DI2lQ8iZYi

  08-09-2017 21:32 via twitter.com
  
  ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/DI2lQ8iZYi
  
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• Huge barn fire ravages historic farm, kills 80 cattle

  08-09-2017 21:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fire killed as many as 80 cattle and destroyed three barns Friday afternoon at a historic Barrhaven dairy farm.
  Black Rapids Farm, on Prince of Wales Drive near Fallowfield Road, belongs to the Ruiter family. The fire broke out around 1 p.m.
  The cattle were a mix of Holstein calves and cows, but about a dozen escaped harm because they were out in a field.
  No people were hurt and the family house is unharmed, said Danielle Cardinal of Ottawa Fire. “I commend the owner on not going into the
  
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• Ottawa's Frances Itani brings her latest novel, That's My Baby, into the world

  08-09-2017 20:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  That’s My Baby by Frances Itani
  Book Launch and Signing
  When: Thursday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m.
  Where: Pellan Room, Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St.
  Admission: free, with registration at this Library and Archives Canada webpageWriting, Ottawa author Frances Itani says, is “hard work … thank heavens I am disciplined and never give up.”
  The latest product of her persistence is the novel That’s My Baby, which completes a trilogy that includ
  
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• Beck: Ontario pot announcement didn't focus enough on public health

  08-09-2017 20:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Friday’s announcement from Queen’s Park on Ontario’s approach to legal marijuana did not properly address the need for a robust public-health approach to be the foundation upon which cannabis and cannabis products are made available to the public.
  As a psychiatrist in Ontario who sees the impact of cannabis on young people and their families every day, there were not enough specifics about how the province plans to educate the public, and especially youth, on the risks of canna
  
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• Solby: We already have a great way to distribute pot – the LCBO

  08-09-2017 20:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario government’s announcement that it’s going to use some sort of subsidiary of the LCBO to sell marijuana in the province is the worst possible option.
  Already, the province has the existing infrastructure to sell cannabis: LCBO stores. Instead of going that route (which some health-care advocates worry places liquor and pot in too close proximity) or fully privatizing sales, such as with cigarettes, the Liberals have chosen a third path. It is tremendously wasteful and squa
  
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• Neighbours horrified by meth cooking operation in Centretown park

  08-09-2017 20:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Breaking Bad on a park picnic table?
  Neighbours are concerned about an overnight incident in which police arrested a suspect who was allegedly cooking methamphetamine in a public park in the midst of a Centretown residential neighbourhood.
  Police say they were at Dundonald Park — which is bordered by Somerset Street and MacLaren Street, between Bay and Lyon streets — at about 3:30 a.m. Friday and that one man was arrested, but not charged, in an ongoing investigation i
  
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• Accused killer back in jail, Picard may appeal ruling that reinstated murder charge

  08-09-2017 20:29
  
  Accused killer Adam Picard is back in jail after surrendering to police Friday morning.The former military man dabbed at tears, and sat shaking in court moments before Ottawa police handcuffed him on the third floor of the Elgin Street courthouse.
  
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• Prince of Wales closed due to huge barn fire

  08-09-2017 20:03
  
  A barn fire that broke out about 1 p.m. has caused police to close Prince of Wales Drive in both directions.The barn is a little north of Fallowfield Road.“Initial reports are that there are cattle inside,” said an Ottawa fire spokeswoman, but she didn’t yet have full information.
  
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• Mayor Watson wants weed stores kept away from 'inappropriate' areas

  08-09-2017 19:50
  
  Mayor Jim Watson on Friday was waiting to learn what the city’s role will be in locating government-run weed shops but he already knows they shouldn’t be in “inappropriate” areas.“My overriding concerns is to ensure that they’re located in the proper locations."
  
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• Illegal pot shops in Ottawa, 'consider yourself on notice,' Ontario government says

  08-09-2017 19:47
  
  Ottawa’s freewheeling pot shops will be shut out and shut down under the provincial government’s plan for cannabis sales.The province’s announcement that it will open LCBO-style marijuana stores leaves out independent, owner-operated shops, an option favoured by many cannabis activists.Illegal dispensaries are not part of the plan
  
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• TRAFFIC: Yield to emergency vehicles. Ottawa Fire trucking water to scene of barn fire. #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  08-09-2017 19:46 via twitter.com
  TRAFFIC: Yield to emergency vehicles. Ottawa Fire trucking water to scene of barn fire. #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• Today's letters: Transit versus the environment

  08-09-2017 19:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Citizen readers weigh in today on math, Macdonald and the Moodie LRT station. You can write to us too, at [email protected]
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  We’re working to protect community
  Re: Moodie LRT station’s location bad for green space, city told, Sept. 1.
  The Crystal Beach Lakeview Community Association wants to clarify its position regarding the draft Environmental Project Report of the LRT extension to Moodie Drive.
  Our association worked hard over the summer to get the best possible res
  
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• Quebec police ask for help in case of Ottawa man arrested on child pornography charges

  08-09-2017 18:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quebec police are asking for assistance in the case of an Ottawa man who was convicted of child pornography charges and was arrested last year on similar charges.
  The Sûreté du Québec’s internet sexual exploitation investigation team, in collaboration with the Ottawa police and other agencies arrested David Sharpe, 37, at a home on Prince of Wales Drive in December 2016 for allegedly making, possessing and distributing child pornography.
  This investigation began with in
  
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• Ontario plans 150 government-run pot shops by 2020

  08-09-2017 18:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new arm of the LCBO will sell recreational marijuana in Ontario, the province announced Friday morning, with the goal being to keep people from buying it.
  Customers will have to show identification and get their pot from salespeople behind counters in up to 150 standalone marijuana stores by 2020, with the actual marijuana concealed in plain cases, the way corner stores now store tobacco.
  “These stores will operate with the same socially-responsible retailing standards that apply to alco
  
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• Almost 300 tickets issued in five-day back-to-school safety sweep

  08-09-2017 18:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  The results have been tabulated. 
  Ottawa police traffic offices issued a grand total of 294 provincial offence notices in their five-day safety enforcement campaign in and around Ottawa schools.
  In particular, officers looked for: speeding; failing to stop, failing to yield to pedestrians at school crossings; failing to obey crossing guards; failing to obey school bus signs; and distracted driving.
  The patrol officers also maintained a strong presence on social media, bo
  
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• NEXT: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/vuIHJefKSc

  08-09-2017 17:47 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/vuIHJefKSc
  
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• Gormley: Sanctions feel good … but they don't work particularly well

  08-09-2017 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is only natural that as Russia attacks other countries’ borders and elections, and Myanmar brutalizes an ethnic minority and North Korea terrorizes the world, there will be demands to do whatever thing makes us feel less utterly powerless. The demand is often for sanctions — to keep them, to multiply them, to reintroduce them.
  But any call for sanctions, however insistent, will necessarily be weak.
  Sanctions depend first on an improbable proposition: That multiple states will deci
  
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• Cops need help finding potential victims of child pornography

  08-09-2017 17:30
  
  Quebec police are asking for assistance in the case of an Ottawa man who was convicted of child pornography charges and was arrested last year on similar charges. The Sûreté du Québec’s internet sexual exploitation investigation team, in collaboration with the Ottawa police and other agencies arrested David Sharpe, 37.
  
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• Fred Hersch CD reviewed

  08-09-2017 17:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Open Book (Palmetto)Fred Hersch
  By now, the contours, if not the particulars, of a Fred Hersch solo album should come as no surprise.
  In that sense, Open Book, released today and by my count is Hersch’s 11th solo outing since 1993, satisfies high expectations that are accustomed to the acclaimed 61-year-old pianist’s deep lyrical seam, warm and well-crafted lushness, and improvisatory zest.
  Ballads rich in emotion — always a high point in a Hersch solo performance — open
  
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• BREAKING: Ontario to sell marijuana in as many as 150 stores run by the province's liquor control board by the year 2020. #ottnews #onpoli

  08-09-2017 17:22 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Ontario to sell marijuana in as many as 150 stores run by the province's liquor control board by the year 2020. #ottnews #onpoli
  
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• 'They have a memory of famine': Some of the interesting things epigenetic experiments have shown

  08-09-2017 17:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Epigenetics experiments range from rats to worms to humans, and even plants:
  Labs that insert “transgenes” into an animal for research can add genes that create a fluorescent protein. It’s a useful tool in tracking which animals inherit which gene. They glow. A Spanish group found that a worm with this transgene glows a little bit when it is kept cool, but glows more if it lives for a while in warmer conditions. Here’s the epigenetic part: Once it warms up, it k
  
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• Coming up: @ProfDanBear discusses #Ontario #marijuana plans: bit.ly/1ppeuDa @_MarkSutcliffe #onpoli https://t.co/4odogHOxFg

  08-09-2017 17:14 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up: @ProfDanBear discusses #Ontario #marijuana plans: bit.ly/1ppeuDa @_MarkSutcliffe #onpoli https://t.co/4odogHOxFg
  
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• Woman busted for driving 57 km/h over the limit on Highway 401 - without a licence

  08-09-2017 17:10
  
  If you don’t have a driver’s licence, the fast lane of Highway 401 at high noon is probably the wrong place to call attention to yourself. Ontario Provincial Police officers stopped a 30-year-old Toronto woman Thursday for driving 57 km/h over the limit on Highway 401 in the Thousand Islands area, a 100-km/h zone.
  
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• Too much speed for licence-free driver on Highway 401

  08-09-2017 16:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you don’t have a driver’s licence, the fast lane of Highway 401 at high noon is probably the wrong place to call attention to yourself.
  Ontario Provincial Police officers stopped a 30-year-old Toronto woman Thursday for driving 57 km/h over the limit on Highway 401 in the Thousand Islands area, a 100-km/h zone.
  She had no driver’s licence, and faces one charge for that and another for a speed that is classed as stunt driving.
  She wouldn’t have been able to drive home e
  
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• GPS system leads driver, 22, into wrong-way traffic on busy Highway 401

  08-09-2017 16:29
  
  Police are advising drivers not to put all of their faith in GPS systems after a 22-year-old Woodstock man was arrested Thursday after blindly following his machine’s instructions in the wrong direction on busy Highway 401.
  
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• Drop in capital region's jobless rate to 5.9% not a sign of good economic health

  08-09-2017 16:16
  
  The national capital region showed an impressive drop in the jobless rate in August.The rate fell to 5.9 per cent from 6.3 per cent in July, largely due to 6,100 fewer people in the labour force, along with 3,000 fewer jobs.
  
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• 18th annual Glebe House Tour: An ode to both old and new

  08-09-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Denise Carruthers didn’t expect that her playful negotiations over a bottle of wine at the backyard fence would result in getting her dream home.
  Originally living next door to their current home on Fourth Avenue, Carruthers and her husband would often plead with their neighbours to give them first dibs if they ever decided to sell.
  “And they made good on that bottle of wine,” Carruthers laughs.
  The renovations to this century old Fourth Avenue Home have helped balance modern a
  
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• Capital region jobless rate drops in August, as fewer workers seek fewer jobs

  08-09-2017 15:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  The national capital region showed an impressive drop in the jobless rate in August.
  The rate fell to 5.9 per cent from 6.3 per cent in July, largely due to 6,100 fewer people in the labour force, along with 3,000 fewer jobs.
  In Ottawa, the rate fell to 5.9 per cent in August, from 6.5 per cent in July, while on the Gatineau side, the rate climbed to 5.8 per cent from 5.5 per cent over the same period.
  Drilling down by sector in capital region, federal government jobs slipped by 4,300 in August,
  
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• CityFolk Preview: Jack Johnson gets political with the 'world's happiest little protest song'

  08-09-2017 15:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jack Johnson has not been known to ruffle political feathers.
  Yes, he’s quietly operated charities and environmental causes and been involved in turn-out-the-vote movements. But over 15 years and six previous albums, the surfer/songwriter has largely been content with creating easygoing, mellow singalong rock tunes with inspiration drawn from the wild Hawaiian landscape and rolling sea that surrounds him.
  But with his seventh album All the Light Above It Too, Johnson’s turned a corne
  
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• Matthews: Revoke Aung San Suu Kyi's honorary Canadian citizenship

  08-09-2017 15:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Few Canadians know of the Rohingya and their plight in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). That is about to change.
  The reason is that atrocity crimes are now being committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority by the Myanmar government. The Rohingya – numbering around one million – are a long-persecuted minority in Myanmar. They have faced routine and public discrimination for decades, most notably the denial of citizenship. But since Aug. 25, following an attack on a border post by
  
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• Fatal collision of three tractor-trailers closes Hwy. 401 near Cornwall

  08-09-2017 14:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  One trucker is dead after a fiery, three-rig pileup late Thursday night that has shut down Highway 401 west of Cornwall.
  Police reported Friday morning that the eastbound lanes remain closed at Moulinette Road to Long Sault. When it would reopen wasn’t known.
  Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry OPP says that an eastbound tractor-trailer collided with another eastbound rig which then struck a third tractor-trailer.
  The second truck became engulfed in flames and the driver was pronounced dead at
  
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